Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
nuptial flight .
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Examples
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It is not impossible that this slave-mother, whom we are inclined to pity, may be indeed a great amorist, a great voluptuary, deriving a certain enjoyment, an after-taste, as it were, of her one marriage-flight, from the union of the male and female principle that thus comes to pass in her being.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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a rule on the shrub or the tree that is nearest the hive; for the queen, besides being weighed down by her eggs, has dwelt in constant darkness ever since her marriage-flight, or the swarm of the previous year; and is naturally reluctant to venture far into space, having indeed almost forgotten the use of her wings.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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